... that's the topic up for discussion in Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" next Thurs at 9am on BBC Radio 4. Should, hopefully, be a bun fight. Listen and discuss...
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... that's the topic up for discussion in Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time" next Thurs at 9am on BBC Radio 4. Should, hopefully, be a bun fight. Listen and discuss...
Should be good - If I can remember to listen in! I'm looking forward to it already. Thank you for the heads-up mal4mac. :smile5:
My guess is that they will come done on the Analytic side.
It wasn't such a good bun fight :( Maybe this argument has just run out of steam because it has generated so much hot air for such a long time. All I remember from it, a week after the event, is the panelists repeatedly saying 'continental philosophy' is not really a good name, as it doesn't describe a particular branch of philosophy. It would have been better, I think, to concentrate on one philosopher and have the chief pro and con supporters on the panel. For instance, Heidegger with Gottlieb against and Dreyfuss for...
As is often noted, analytic philosophers tend to sacrifice profundity for rigour. And continental thinkers do the reverse. ;)